60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

So long as you're not interested in playing AAA titles on release with max graphics, you can go quite a while between builds. I got over a decade on my last one, and will probably do the same with my current machine.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

I just crossed 3 years.

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